Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction
The Rise of Picture Identification, 1764-1835
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Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money, the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits, and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, reworked ideas about portraiture to promote the value and agendas of the ordinary middle classes. According to Kamilla Elliott, our current practices of "picture identification" (driver's licenses, passports, and so on) are rooted in these late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century debates. Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction examines t...
Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money, the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits, and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, reworked ideas about portraiture to promote the value and agendas of the ordinary middle classes. According to Kamilla Elliott, our current practices of "picture identification" (driver's licenses, passports, and so on) are rooted in these late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century debates. Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction examines the way that artists, historians, politicians, and writers such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, and Charles Maturin dealt with changes in how social identities were understood and valued in British culture--specifically, who was represented by portraits and how they were represented as they vied for social power. Elliott investigates multiple aspects of picture identification: its politics, epistemologies, semiotics, and aesthetics, and the desires and phobias that it produces. Her extensive research not only covers Gothic literature's best-known and most studied texts but also engages with more than one hundred Gothic works, expanding knowledge of first-wave Gothic fiction while opening new windows into familiar work. "An outstanding contribution to Gothic studies, to cultural/literary history in general, and to our grasp of the spread of the 'portrait' across many different media since the early modern period." --Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona Kamilla Elliott is senior lecturer at Lancaster University and is author of Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate.
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